Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSENOh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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